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Ivan Grieve

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My approach to a subject is to see it in layers.Looking at the world, it feels sometimes like a thousand cameras are clicking away in my head.There is so much to try and capture, that to understand it ,I frequently make collage work more freely than sketches.It is like all the expression is trying to speak at once. I collect discarded shopping lists,gloves,digital images of footprints and the shadows of passing pedestrians tracing across the pavements.In a chaotic place I seek solace by trying to visualise some order or expression. I am really enjoying using new materials to work with for example Bideford Black (natural pigment I have used to make some paint) Iodine, old newspapers ( as far back as the1870s they have a different feel), coffee grounds and hammerite to name but a few. If I have a day with out making I begin to feel uncomfortable and trapped. I find it hard to speak with trained artists as they seem to work more calmly and think more clearly.
My work at the moment is based around crowds of people, I am interested in the way groups of people and individuals stand or sit a certain distance apart, surges of people rushing for a train, or sitting at a concert.I look at photographs of these things, make my own interpretations and then use these as sketches to build more expressive free work, of what it feels like to me, in a crowd.

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Virtual Gallery: ‘Friendship And Community’ Exhibition Curated By Frances Christie

Our first virtual gallery is now open with an exhibition on the theme of 'Friendship and Community', curated by Sotheby’s Head of Modern and Post-War British Art and Outside In trustee, Frances Christie. Tour the …

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Blue Collar by Ivan Grieve
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sheet music collage by Ivan Grieve
Enjoying the view by Ivan Grieve
Self portrait by Ivan Grieve
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Baltic Wharf No.7 E by Ivan Grieve
Departures by Ivan Grieve
Baltic Wharf No.8 A by Ivan Grieve
Table by Ivan Grieve
Baltic Wharf No.9 C by Ivan Grieve
Girl in a crowd by Ivan Grieve
Baltic Wharf No.10 D by Ivan Grieve
Baltic Wharf No.29 B by Ivan Grieve
Commute by Ivan Grieve
Detritus No.4 by Ivan Grieve
Baltic Wharf No.16 A by Ivan Grieve
The Hill by Ivan Grieve
A beach by Ivan Grieve
Baltic Wharf No.49 i by Ivan Grieve
Baltic Wharf 33 & 34 (shown together) by Ivan Grieve
Totnes Castle by Ivan Grieve
Four by Ivan Grieve
Station Stop by Ivan Grieve
Commute by Ivan Grieve
Madge in red by Ivan Grieve
Commuters 2 by Ivan Grieve
Gone by Ivan Grieve
Crowded space by Ivan Grieve
St Mary’s at lunch by Ivan Grieve
Baltic Wharf No.33 by Ivan Grieve
Baltic Wharf No.30 A by Ivan Grieve
Self portrait sketch by Ivan Grieve
Self portrait sketch by Ivan Grieve
self portrait sketch by Ivan Grieve
AAD80FFB-2D33-4809-A95B-844B5C0DC5D5.jpeg by Ivan Grieve
Self portrait by Ivan Grieve
27439B85-0CAB-48CE-AECF-B3D2F861E0BA.jpeg by Ivan Grieve
06B59A36-96CC-4589-9CDC-838DA7028D0C.jpeg by Ivan Grieve
E0E7F5A3-EB26-4B4C-8A5B-21C7B629CB46.jpeg by Ivan Grieve
CE8E2869-9544-4B81-8CDF-A53A5E561E41.jpeg by Ivan Grieve
Crowd II by Ivan Grieve
Still Life in dead flowers by Ivan Grieve
Dusk and Dawn 3 by Ivan Grieve
Madge iii by Ivan Grieve
Madge iv by Ivan Grieve
Madge v by Ivan Grieve
Madge vi by Ivan Grieve
Cover image Summer castle by Ivan Grieve
Platform by Ivan Grieve
Platform (study) by Ivan Grieve
Crowd 16 by Ivan Grieve
Departure by Ivan Grieve
June by Ivan Grieve
Madge in the garden by Ivan Grieve
Dears by Ivan Grieve
Dusk and Dawn 1 by Ivan Grieve
Baltic Wharf No.s 1 by Ivan Grieve
Dusk and Dawn 2 by Ivan Grieve
Dusk and Dawn 4 by Ivan Grieve
Procrastination by Ivan Grieve
Late Night Thinker by Ivan Grieve
It will be ok by Ivan Grieve
Totnes by Ivan Grieve
Totnes by Ivan Grieve
Field by Ivan Grieve
Crowd 1 by Ivan Grieve
Crowd 4 by Ivan Grieve
Crowd 9 by Ivan Grieve
Wild Garlic by Ivan Grieve
Totnes Abstract 1 by Ivan Grieve
Untitled by Ivan Grieve
Crowd 16 by Ivan Grieve
Baltic Wharf No.1 A by Ivan Grieve
Baltic Wharf No.47 A by Ivan Grieve

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